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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Yeah thats my biggest problem with people promoting nuclear as the end of all problems. The nuclear technology today is not good enough to be able to meet the world needs because of the nuclear waste it produces if they are able to get the
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
It is a dark pattern if unsubscribing is more inconvenient than subscribing. If I can get a subscription where you are able to verify my credit card information and my identity with a click of a button. Then I should be able to unsubscribe
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
I had also submitted a complain about the dark pattern that tradingview uses so that people get subscribed to $600+ annual subscription without being notified. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38347832 Does anyone subsc
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
https://archive.is/wioou
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Top Polluter China's Shrinking Emissions Put Carbon Peak in Play(bloomberg.com)
4 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|1 comments
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
2024 is the beginning of the end of ice engines as it looks like battery and electric motor are cheaper then ice engines for most categories already in the largest car market China. Whoever created rules for banning of new ice cars after 20
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China's Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts(bloomberg.com)
2 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|1 comments
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
This data will be a gold mine for scammers. When they know relationships and real names of people they can target people as well create specific attacks for different people. Now with what LLM's are capable of mass social engineering
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
It looks to me like China will move from using cheap labour to cheap electricity from renewables for its manufacturing a lot faster than the rest of the world can keep up.
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
It's the same for Chinese car manufacturers because of competition and many of them not being legacy car makers so not stuck in the past way of doing things are willing to do rapid development and updates. So the largest complain about
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China Already Makes as Many Batteries as the Entire World Wants(bloomberg.com)
4 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|4 comments
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How record-breaking Hurricane Beryl is a sign of a warming world(bbc.com)
2 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|0 comments
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
SSD prices have been dropping on 10-20% a year will be interesting to see what happens to hdd market when 8-10tb ssd are cheaper than 8-10tb hdd.
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Its a long studied management theory that most companies in the lead in trying to protect its current profitable product ie cash cow hesitate in innovating as it would destroy their current products market share. This results in competitors
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
I have been predicting over the last year that with many US and European manufacture suddenly giving up on ev growth rate and feed in tariff for solar not getting a good price. The next big thing is going to be home batteries. Looking at wh
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
That's not true anymore it depends on number crunching ability and willingness to spend money. Most countries are not willing to spend the money for granular details for a small towns or cities weather
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Seems like at last some of the carbon nanotubes tech breakthroughs we read about here on hacker news have started making an impact.
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Geely releases new LFP battery with fast charging and energy density of 192Wh/kg(cnevpost.com)
15 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|7 comments
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
I realized that the ability to visualize is probably on a spectrum many years ago while discussing science fiction fantasy books with others. And I am probably someone whose ability to visualize is a lot worse than others.
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
I think US was involved in the tensions between Ukraine and Russia change into full scale war. Putin needed an excuse to go for all out war and take over parts of Ukraine. And US played a part in that happening.
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Now the next big thing in home solar will be home batteries. BYD seagull Chinese car costs less than $10k it has a 30-32 kWh battery where as a Tesla powerwall costs around $9k for 13 kWh. With feed in tariff restrictions being added home b
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
This is old data even without the excess inventory a lot of new larger module manufacturing got online end of 2023 and start of 2024. These are the currnet traded prices separated with efficiency https://www.pvxchange.com/Pr
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Not enough production yet to target those cheap customers. Today most companies would like to utilize all their production to make most money ie the most expensive. As demand gets saturated and they start looking for new customers they will
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
The rise of ai and the huge energy requirements I think might upend some of these predictions. I hope not though as we are already moving too slow to get off fossil fuels and ai could make it slower
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World faces 'staggering' oil glut by end of decade, energy watchdog warns(ft.com)
4 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|2 comments
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
It's not in the interest of the VC that the founders have financial security. Well at least the type of VC's that have come up in since the dot com boom where it was not about building viable businesses but getting sold to the hig
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The Vibes Lie: Electric Vehicles Accelerate Toward 50% of Global Sales(forbes.com)
2 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|0 comments
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The Ryzen AI 300 Series for Mobile: Zen 5 with RDNA 3.5, & XDNA2 NPU with 50TOPS(anandtech.com)
10 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|1 comments
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Considering how stupid/unsophisticated an avg computer user is. The worlds scammers income is going to sky rocket in the next few years as more people get new computers with built in recall.
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Tech Analysis – LTT Labs(lttlabs.com)
1 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|0 comments

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